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Vladimir Nabokov. ORACHE
ot stop the shiver running through him; in his ears there kept echoing the verse about the "revolver, dagger, or epee"; he kept seeing before him the sharp-angled pale-green caricature of his father, with the green crossing the outline in one place and not reaching it in another—a negligence of the color print. Quite recently, before his ride to school, that crepitation of steel, that scrape of soles... his father and the fencing master, both wearing padded chest protectors and wire-mesh masks.... It had all been so habitual— the Frenchman's uvular cries, rotnpez, battezl, the robust movements of his father, the flicker and clink of the foils.... A pause: panting and smiling, h